The Aga Khan has charted plans aimed at improving its ability to check the spread of cancers among Tanzanians. One such of strategies is increasing diagnostic camps. The move by Aga Khan Hospital comes at a time when records show that 44,000 new patients are diagnosed with cancers each year in the country and most of them do not have access to curative services.

Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III will always be remembered as one of the most distinguished and well-reputed leaders and diplomats in the history of Pakistan movement. During the freedom movement, Sir Aga Khan proved to be a very conscientious and dynamic mediator between the western world and leaders of the subcontinent. With his vast experience and a personality of international stature, he always believed that education was the ultimate tool with which Muslims of the subcontinent could advance to live a life of prosperity and peace.

His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of the University of Central Asia (UCA) visited the Naryn campus, the first of UCA’s three new undergraduate campuses spread across the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.His Highness the Aga Khan was very pleased that construction is on schedule and that the first students would be enrolled in September 2016. Students will be admitted on a merit basis regardless of their ability to pay.

Diamond Trust Bank has acquired a Sh2.68 billion ($30 million) loan from PROPARCO, a subsidiary of French Development Agency, to support its growth strategy. DTB said in a statement the seven-year international loan at an undisclosed interest rate would be go towards boosting its small and medium enterprise loan portfolio. “Through this significant credit line, we will continue to expand our SME offering and customer base,” managing director Nasim Devji said.

Delhi Tourism is the nodal agency and became eligible for tourism ministry funding last week. A museum is planned at Humayun's Tomb by Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which will come up in the next few years. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture submitted a detailed proposal for Humayun's Tomb interpretation centre and we allotted Rs 50 crore for it," said a senior official.

Tajik horse tour operator, Pamir Horse Adventure (PHA), has won the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) Mountain Protection Award. According to the UIAA’s website, the 2014 UIAA Mountain Protection Award was awarded to Pamir Horse Adventure, a Tajikistan-based community tour organization, for its conservation and tourism development initiatives in the Pamir Mountains.

Ancient and modern, traditional and forward-looking, stark and ornate, spiritual and practical: Contrasting adjectives aptly describe the brand-new Ismaili Center in Toronto. Adjacent to the Centre is a state-of-the-art museum. Both structures highlight the diversity and depth of Islamic history. As the Aga Khan put it during the opening ceremonies, traditional elements of Muslim architecture are given a confident, forward-looking vocabulary.

Nauman Muhammad Ahsan, a student at the Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, captured the attention of judges at the Sindh Science Fair on Thursday. His project featured a pair of temperature-regulating boots to help people keep cool in the scorching Karachi summers.

Afghanistan's problems are not stopping residents of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), Tajikistan, from helping Afghans who live across the Panj River in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province. In 2010, Tajikistan and Afghanistan sealed a deal enabling Afghans from Badakhshan Province to receive free medical care in Khorog, or to have a Tajik doctor visit them in Afghanistan, also free of charge. The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the Tajik Ministry of Health and Social Protection make the charitable effort possible

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is introducing injectable vaccination along with oral polio vaccine to boost immunity level of the recipients against polio virus and do away with the crippling childhood ailment, according to officials. Sources said that provincial government took the decision after IPV showed promising results in Bajaur Agency during a demonstration project implemented by Aga Khan Medical University between 2011 and 2014.